Bastards : politics, family, and law in early modern France /
Gerber, Matthew.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.
Introduction : illegitimacy and the political history of the family -- Bastardy in sixteenth-century French legal doctrine and practice -- Jurisprudential reform of illegitimacy in seventeenth-century France -- Royal bastardy & dynastic crisis -- State expansion, social practice, and the quandaries of legal unification -- Redefining social interest: the eighteenth-century foundling crisis -- Illegitimacy and legal change in the French Enlightenment.
Illegitimacy
Illegitimate children